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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung Electronics' second quarter misses forecast as smartphone worries deepen  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd missed already modest expectations for its quarterly earnings guidance on Friday, deepening worries that its smartphone business may have peaked, as growth in sales …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Samsung's record $8.3 billion profit isn't enough for worried investors  —  Samsung today released guidance for its latest financial quarter, and to the average eye they're very positive.  The company's early figures reveal an operating profit of 9.5 trillion won (around $8.3 billion) from 57 trillion won ($49.9 billion) revenue.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
European watchdogs order Google to rewrite privacy policy or face legal action  —  European watchdogs threaten tech company with legal action over 2012 policy which ‘violates commitment to transparency’  —  Privacy watchdogs in the UK, Germany and Italy have told Google to rewrite …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
BBC to end 3D TV experiment with ‘Doctor Who’ special later this year  —  For the past two years the BBC has been experimenting with 3D television, but the technology hasn't quite caught on the way the corporation would've hoped.  Because of this, 3D programming will be put on hiatus at the end of this year …
David Meyer / GigaOM:
European PRISM anger gains momentum with fresh cloud warnings and data threats  —  There's no stopping the slew of PRISM reactions coming out of Europe, and they're getting more serious by the day.  Yesterday we had the first senior European politician suggesting citizens shun U.S. web services …
Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint:
Google sends invites to 11 July press event - subtly hints at Moto X unveiling in ad?  —  Google has invited 50 journalists to a small press event from 10 July to 11 July, where Motorola could unveil the Moto X smartphone, according to Leo Laporte.  Laporte, a tech reporter …
Cody Toombs / Android Police:
Falcon Pro Updates To v2.0.4 Outside Of The Play Store, Now Supports A Way To Blatantly Skirt Twitter's Token Limit  —  Falcon Pro users have had a front-row seat to quite a bit of drama over the last few months.  The events started when the app struck its 100,000 user token limit …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
HTC profit down 83 percent from last year despite flagship launch  —  HTC has just announced its unaudited results for the second quarter 2013, and they're not pretty.  Despite launching a much-lauded flagship smartphone, the HTC one, the company made just NT$1.25 billion (roughly $41 million) …
Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:
Michael Dell, Silver Lake Said to Rule Out Raising Offer  —  Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management LLC won't sweeten their $24.4 billion offer to take Dell Inc. (DELL) private, people with direct knowledge of the situation said.  —  Dell and Silver Lake are ruling out an increase …
More: ZDNet and DealBook
Andrew Leonard / Salon:
AdBlock Plus lets some advertisers pay to play  —  The hugely popular browser extension charges a fee from big advertisers such as Google to let some ads go through  —  If you use AdBlock Plus to keep your Web browsing experiencing free of annoying clutter, this is the kind of tweet that might grab your attention:
Tweets: @labnol

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The NYT added 210,000 digital subscribers in Q1, for 10.5M subscribers in total, up 8% YoY, and ad revenue fell 2.4% YoY to $103.7M; the OpenAI lawsuit cost $1M

Austin Fuller / Current:
NPR CEO Katherine Maher will not attend a US House committee hearing on May 8 looking at alleged NPR bias due to a schedule conflict, but offers to appear later

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A historical look at Pulitzer winners shows the decline of local and regional newspapers and the growth in online news outlets, especially at the local level

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